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  • Ranjan Maitra has begun a two-year term as Associate Chair for Research for the Department of Statistics.  The intent of this new position is to support faculty in ways that will strengthen the department's research enterprise and help faculty obtain external funding for their research.  Professor Maitra joined the faculty of the Department of Statistics in 2003.  He is the winner of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and has received external funding from other federal sponsors, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Justice, the National Institutes of Health, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Congratulations to Jiaming Qiu, Matt Stuart, and Yifan Zhu, winners of Research Excellence Awards this fall. Quoting from the Graduate College website: "The purpose of these awards is to recognize graduate students for outstanding research accomplishments as documented in their theses and dissertations. These students are also expected to be academically superior and able not only to do research, but also to develop a well-written product. The intent of this program is to recognize "the best of the best" graduating students who have submitted theses and dissertations."

  • The department hosted a fall picnic with games and food for students, staff, and faculty. The picnic featured lawn games and boxed lunches in the Maple Shelter at Brookside Park. 

  • The following awards were announced during the department’s welcome seminar on the first day of class (August 23). Pictured below are Charlie Labuzzetta (one of three winners of the Vince Sposito Computing Award) and Eryn Blagg (winner of the Vera David Award).

  • Sebastian McCrimmon is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Wayne A. Fuller Scholarship. McCrimmon joined Iowa State in the fall of 2021 after earning a B.A. in Economics from the University of Southern California. 

  • This semester, the Department is joined by one visiting scholar, Keila Gonzalez Gomez, and three postdoctoral researchers, Seonghun Cho, Yoon-Bae Jun and Stephanie Reinders. Stephanie is working with the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) and Distinguished Professor Alicia Carriquiry, Seonghun is working with LAS Dean's Professor Jae Kwang-Kim, Yoon-Bae is working with LAS Dean's Professor Zhengyuan Zhu and Keila was working with University Professor Derrick Rollins.

  • Professor Danica Ommen co-authored article titled "Use of an Automated System to Evaluate Feature Dissimilarities in Handwriting Under a Two-Stage Evaluative Process." The study repurposed a commercially available automated system to generate empirical distributions for ranking feature dissimilarity scores among pairs of handwritten phrases.

  • Meeker released the second edition of his book 'Statistical Methods for Reliability Data' along with authors Luis A. Escobar and Francis G. Pascual. He also released the book 'Achieving Product Reliability' with authors Necip Doganaksoy and Gerald J. Hahn.

  • Professor Philip Dixon was appointed to the National Academy of Science Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress. The Committee meets two to three times annually to receive briefings on the current status of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, scientific issues involved in implementing the plan, and natural system restoration progress.

  • In July, Professor Xiongtao Dai received a grant award from the National Science Foundation. The grant funded Xiongtao's collaborative research with Sara Lopez-Pintado from Northeastern University and their research titled "Halfspace Depth for Object and Functional Data."

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